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Louisiana State University Student Government Records Record Group A5500 Inventory Compiled by Barry Cowan Revised by Michelle Melancon University Archives Hill Memorial Library Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2006, 2008, 2016

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Louisiana State University Student Government Records

Record Group A5500 Inventory

Compiled by Barry Cowan

Revised by Michelle Melancon

University Archives Hill Memorial Library

Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2006, 2008, 2016

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CONTENTS OF INVENTORY CONTENTS OF INVENTORY ......................................................................................... 2 SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 3 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE .......................................................................... 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ....................................................................................... 4 LIST OF SUB-GROUPS, SERIES, AND SUBSERIES .................................................... 4 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS .................................................................................................. 5 INDEX TERMS ................................................................................................................ 13 CONTAINER LIST .......................................................................................................... 14  Use of manuscript materials. If you wish to examine items in the record group, please fill out a call sip specifying the materials you wish to see. Consult the Container List for location information needed on the call slip. Photocopying. Should you wish to request photocopies, please consult a staff member. Do not remove items to be photocopied. The existing order and arrangement of unbound materials must be maintained. Reproductions must be made from surrogates (microfilm, digital scan, photocopy of original held by LSU Libraries), when available. Publication. Readers assume full responsibility for compliance with laws regarding copyright, literary property rights, and libel. Permission to examine archival materials does not constitute permission to publish. Any publication of such materials beyond the limits of fair use requires specific prior written permission. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed in writing to the Head, Public Services, Special Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803-3300. When permission to publish is granted, two copies of the publication will be requested for the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection. Proper acknowledgement of University Archives materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the University Archives are welcomed.

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SUMMARY Size

14.5 linear feet.

Geographic Locations

Baton Rouge, La.

Inclusive Dates

1927-2006.

Bulk Dates

1964-2002.

Languages

English.

Summary

Planning documents, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, meeting minutes, constitutions and bylaws, reports, resolutions and legislation, and printed items created by past Student Government Association presidents, Assembly members, and executive staff pertaining to issues of special interest to students on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University.

Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Copyright

Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Examination and reproduction are governed by state and federal public records laws.

Related Collections

Office of Academic Affairs Records, A0100

Dean of Students Records, A0302

Office of the Chancellor Records, A0001

Board of Supervisors Records A0003

Citation Louisiana State University Student Government Records, A5500,

Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.

Stack Location

Ranges A:11; A:73-83; 43; 78, 83, LSU MISC

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HISTORICAL NOTE The Student Government Association was formed in 1926 from two rival groups that were vying for control of student affairs. Student government is made up of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. In addition, college councils exist to represent the interests of students to deans and department chairs of academic units. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Planning documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, financial records, meeting minutes, constitutions and bylaws, reports, resolutions and legislation, and printed items created by past Student Government Association presidents and executive staff pertaining to issues of special interest to students on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University. These include the United States’ bicentennial, race relations, campus safety, elections, bus trips to out-of-town football games, assessment of a technology fee, Program Support and Initiatives Fee, search committee for a new chancellor, Council of Student Body Presidents, Personal Access Web Service (PAWS), financial statements, end-of-year-reports, and student alcohol use and abuse. LIST OF SERIES Series I: Correspondence, 1967-1992 Range A: Box 1

Series II: Cabinet and Staff Meeting Records, 1966-1988 Range A: Box 1

Series III: Assembly Agendas and Minutes, 1932-1992 Range A: Box 2, 10

Series IV: Constitutions, 1927-1991 Range A: Box 2

Series V: Bylaws, 1970-1988 Range A: Box 2

Series VI: Rules of Order, 1973-1988 Range A: Box 3

Series VII: Charters, 1980-1987 Range A: Box 3

Series VIII: Handbooks, 1966-1975 Range A: Box 3

Series IX: Committee Records, 1966-1990 Range A: Box 3

Series X: Reports, 1976-1990 Range A: Box 4

Series XI: Topical Files, 1965-2006 Range A: Box 4, 11 Range 43: Box 12 Range78: Box 13-15

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Series XII: Legislation, 1964-1993 Range A: Box 4-6

Series XIII: Election Records, 1966-1991 Range A: Box 6-8 LSU MISC: Box 1, 3

Series XIV: Homecoming Records, 1972-1979 Range A: Box 7

Series XV: Surveys and Questionnaires, 1974-1984 Range A: Box 8

Series XVI: Course Guide Records, 1980-1982 Range A: Box 8-9

Series XVII: SGA Publications, 1966-1988 Range A: Box 9 Range 83: OS Folder 1 LSU MISC: Box 3

Series XVIII: Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1989 Range A: Box 9-10

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

I. Correspondence, 1967-1992. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of letters between student government (SG) presidents, staff, and members of the Student Government Association (SGA) Student Assembly and the University administration concerning the SG budget, fee and tuition increases, proposed legislation affecting higher education, and other issues; new SGA constitutions and amendments; a proposed Black Cultural Center; student fees and salaries for the SG presidents; sexual discrimination, the elimination of policies, procedures, and practices based on sex that were thought to be discriminatory; Title IX funding for women’s athletics; student housing, including fraternities, sororities, and dormitories; textbook shortages at the bookstore; funding for a traffic appeals board; campus parking and traffic problems; concerts, “beer busts,” and other events sponsored by SG; reserved seating at football games for fraternities and medical and law students; student athletic ticket allocations; revisions to the Bill of Student Rights and Code of Student Conduct; fraternity and sorority rush; correspondence with SG presidents at other universities such as the University of Alabama, LSU-Alexandria, the University of Kentucky, and Auburn relating to student conduct at sporting events, comparisons of student rules and rights, and congratulatory notes; and correspondence between SG leadership and state and national politicians on issues related to higher education; the establishment of a leisure sports complex for students. Of note is correspondence regarding plans for dealing with civil disorder in the wake of student shootings at Southern University in 1973, the establishment of mass transit and bicycle routes on campus, the creation of a campus child care facility, the attempted impeachment of SG president Paul Benoist in 1976, the Registration Blues Festival fundraiser begun in 1976 and the handling of the funds generated by the festival, the invalidation of the election of the 1976 Homecoming queen and court due to voting irregularities and the resulting withholding of SG funds to help defray Homecoming costs, fundraising for an addition to Mike the Tiger’s habitat in 1978-1979, LSU’s designation as a sea grant

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college in 1978, whether or not University administration had a right to involve itself in internal SG issues, correspondence in support of giving student members of higher education boards the right to vote on issues before the boards and placing a student member on the Board of Regents in 1980, the formation in 1982 of the Special Commission on Campus Life to study various aspects of student life such as the library, food service, student health center, campus housing, and recreational facilities and the administration’s responses to the subsequent report; Courtenay Smoak’s death on the Indian Mounds in 1986 and a proposed monument; and the controversy over Mike Archer becoming the head football coach in 1986.

II. Cabinet and Staff Meeting Records, 1966-1988. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of minutes and agendas for the SGA president’s cabinet and SG staff meetings. Cabinet meeting minutes discuss such issues as SGA elections, charitable events, television reports of widespread drug use on campus (1966), a petition asking for an extension of the Christmas holidays (1966), student representation on campus committees (1976), a time capsule for the US Bicentennial, the creation of a new Student Bill of Rights in 1978, progress in establishing a campus day care facility in 1978, whether the SGA should become more autonomous, ideas for a concert to be held in Alex Box Stadium in 1986, and condemning changes to student seating for basketball games in 1987 Staff meeting minutes discuss many of the issues above and the work being done on them. Other issues dealt with improving campus transit, statistics for Women’s Transit Service, status of the SG-sponsored Job Bank, the International Student Association and International Expo, and funding for computer systems.

III. Assembly Agendas and Minutes, 1932-1992. Arranged chronologically, this series contains agendas and minutes of the Student Assembly and pertain to event announcements, resolutions, bills, reports, and discussions and items up for vote by the Student Assembly. Items discussed pertain to such topics as seating for athletic events, Assembly policies, a traffic appeals board, condemning the actions of local businesses that refused to serve African-Americans, relaxing the dress code for women students, veto messages from the SG president on the budget, faculty and staff parking, the Equal Rights Amendment, and other issues; congratulating T. Harry Williams for winning the Pulitzer Prize; debate over a failed resolution for a Kent State University defense fund for those accused of inciting the riots in 1970; calling for the Baton Rouge City Council to repeal an ordinance barring alcohol sales within one-half mile of campus in 1973; failed impeachment proceedings in 1974 against SG financial vice president Gus Tabony because of his employment with the intelligence division of the Baton Rouge Police Department; opposition to a proposed merger of LSU and Southern in 1980 in an attempt to racially integrate higher education in Louisiana; pre-football game searches of students for alcohol; and changes and additions to SG staff, appropriations of funds for student-related projects, instituting a ticket (effective 1982) for electing the president and vice-president rather than the offices being elected separately, student travel to conferences, establishment of the Women’s Transit System, attempts to establish a campus food cooperative, a resolution to urge the federal congress and Louisiana legislature to establish martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as a legal holiday (1982), and changes to bylaws.

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Reports included with the minutes come from various committees such as Academic Affairs, Housing, Transportation, Morale (usually dealing with cheerleaders and pep rallies), and Executive reports discussing lobbying efforts in the Louisiana legislature for increased funding for LSU and against tuition increases. Discussions were also held on proposed amendments to the SG by-laws and constitution, Homecoming events and which campus group was in charge of the events, financial issues, elections, the SGA taking a stand against the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and to keep them from taking over from a weak SGA, salary increases for top University administrators, the concept of in loco parentis, the creation of an International House to encourage greater social and cultural interaction, refurbishment of the French House for possible use as a day care center, the establishment of a book rental program, where Free Speech Alley could and could not be held, the decriminalization of possessing small amounts of marijuana, co-ed student housing, transmittal of noncurrent SGA records to the University Archives (1979), whether the SGA should publish its own news magazine and if would compete with the Reveille for news stories and advertising revenue, a proposed ban in 1980 on Iranian students by the Board of Supervisors, the first monthly “Get Sleazy Drunk Night” for SG representatives and staff in 1980, debates in 1980-1981 on eliminating the office of vice-president or having the president and vice-president run on a ticket to eliminate the risk of both officers being at odds with each other, and student and faculty parking. Bound volumes of Student Council minutes from 1932 to 1966 and Student Senate minutes from 1948 to 1956 pertain to such issues as expenditures for elections and a wreath upon the death of Thomas Boyd (1932), elections of officers, appointments to the honor court, whether to hold a popularity contest including a “campus kingfish” (1933), a declaration approving supervision by faculty of the Journalism School with the Reveille during “the Reveille incident” of 1934, wording of the constitution, campus lighting, updates on buildings under construction, better relations with Tulane University student body, sending a wreath to Huey Long’s funeral and providing a cadet honor guard (1935), discussions about LSU’s desire to play the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl (1936), caring for Mike the Tiger, paying off the balance owed on his purchase, and expenses for his transportation to away football games (1937); discussions on the need for a student union in 1938; an ordnance against drinking in Tiger Stadium in1939; and the 1941 Homecoming parade. Minutes during World War II discuss the Victory Book Campaign that would take up collections of books for soldiers in training camps, sponsoring forums on civilian defense, a memorial fund for students who died in the war, competitions between dormitories for collecting defense materials such as aluminum foil and rubber and for saving electricity, low student morale, plans to prevent fights after the Tulane game (1942), discussions of rising food prices in campus dining facilities and nearby restaurants due to wartime rationing, approval for naming the baseball stadium for Alex Box who was killed in North Africa (1943), and setting up and funding a student soldier scholarship fund. Minutes from the immediate postwar period to the mid-1960s discuss the growing problem of housing returning veterans (installation of the hutments, new dormitories), improvements to the Field House Lounge, the idea of construction of a student recreation center near the lake, improvements to campus transit, converting the memorial fund created during the war into a scholarship fund, whether to invite “negro” universities to participate in the National Student Organization conference hosted by LSU in 1947, concerns about sanitary conditions at restaurants near campus, forming a Tiger Town Clean-Up Committee to deal with restaurant cleanliness and other sanitation issues north of campus, an investigation into errors in treatment given students at the infirmary (1947), arrangements for special trains and buses to take students to away football games at Alabama and Tulane, arrangements for

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dances and proms in the late 1940s featuring the bands of Tex Beneke and Tommy Dorsey, discussions about campus traffic regulations and fines, preparations for the 1950 Sugar Bowl, discussions on the needs of a new auditorium, library, or additional seats in Tiger Stadium; objections to compulsory meal plans and complaints about the campus laundry service; the kidnapping of Mike the Tiger prior to the 1950 LSU-Tulane football game and concern for his safety traveling to other games; cleanup of the reflecting pool behind the Greek Theater; a 1952 resolution for the continuation of low-cost campus housing (hutments) for married students; a 1953 resolution against hair cutting and other forms of hazing; discussion about recreational facilities, such as canoe rentals, on the LSU lakes and cleaning up the lakes (1959); plans in the early 1960s to bring nationally-known musicians and entertainers to campus such as Al Hirt, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Julie London, and others; a monetary gift to the citizens of Alaska following the 1964 earthquake; discussions in 1965 on free speech and property rights in the wake of “the Playboy issue” where a student’s magazines were confiscated by University officials; and telegrams sent to the University of Arkansas for their good sportsmanship and to CBS for biased reporting after LSU defeated Arkansas in the 1966 Cotton Bowl game.

IV. Constitutions, 1927-1991. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of constitutions of the Student Government Association. These documents outline the rights and responsibilities, organizational structure, the three branches of student government, election rules, and amendments.

V. By-Laws, 1970-1988. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of the SGA by-laws. These govern such issues as frequency of Student Assembly meetings, reporting requirements and other responsibilities of the branches of student government and committees, elections and qualifications for officers, removal and successions of officers and committee members, selection of cheerleaders, and student representatives.

VI. Rules of Order, 1973-1988. Arranged chronologically, this series outlines the rules of order for Student Assembly meetings. These include the presentation and tabling of bills and resolutions, making amendments, motions, and nominations; yielding the floor; the number of members for a quorum; duties of various officers and committees and their roles during Assembly meetings; voting; and the keeping of meeting minutes.

VII. Charters, 1980-1987. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of charters of the executive branch of the SGA. Outlined within are the organizational structures, rules, and committees and departments under the executive branch along with their duties and responsibilities.

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VIII. Handbooks, 1966-1975. This series consists of SGA officers handbooks and give a history of the SGA, responsibilities of officers and department heads, rules for the Student Assembly, and procedures for spending SGA funds.

IX. Committee Records, 1966-1990. Arranged alphabetically by committee name, this series consists of reports on committee activities and correspondence and memoranda between committee members and the University administration concerning committee activities. Committees include Academics, Appropriations, US Bicentennial, Black Affairs and Black Culture, Code of Student Conduct, Coed Housing, Seating at Athletic Events, Committee to Study SGA Space Requirements, Homecoming, Council on Environmental Issues, Entertainment Committee, and International Relations Committee, among others.

X. Reports, 1976-1990. Arranged alphabetically by title, this series contains reports and studies created by the SGA on such topics as the possibility of academic credit given for work in the SGA, a book exchange program, time intervals between classes, financial and legislative reports and activities of the president and vice-president from the Executive Branch, implementation of campus housing regulations, financial audits, a proposal for a community outreach program, and the effects of inflation on education costs.

XI. Topical Files, 1965-2006. Arranged alphabetically by topic, this series consists of correspondence, reports, printed materials and other items on such topics as alcohol awareness and policies, an apartment referral service, traffic appeals, improving student life at LSU, campus safety, football game seating, Free Speech Alley, a charity marathon to benefit muscular dystrophy, the tiger cage expansion project, Women’s Transit System, executive appointments to positions in SGA, reforming the SGA, revisions to the Code of Student Conduct, the academic calendar and revisions to Dead Week, Disability Awareness Week, the African American Culture Center, campus recycling, bus trips to football games, Hurricane George in 1998, University policy statements and memoranda, admission standards, the REGGIE registration system, and various activities and fees. Boxes 11-15 are out of sequence because these records were received and processed at a later date.

XII. Legislation, 1964-1993. This series contains acts, bills, resolutions, bills of particulars, executive orders, proclamations, voting sheets, and vetoes from the legislative and executive branches of student government. Acts pertain to revisions to the existing SGA constitution and by-laws and new rules governing such issues as introducing bills, Assembly approval of executive staff appointments, qualifications of candidates seeking office, executive branch salaries, penalties for failure to carry out duties of elected offices, causes for impeachment, ethical standards (gifts, nepotism, bribes), lobbying the Louisiana legislature, reporting requirements and rules for establishing committees and commissions, rules governing the Summer Assembly, proxy votes, keeping financial records and submitting budgets, records

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management, creating Expo-LSU (“[t]o dramatize to the community how education is used at LSU” among other things), and faculty awards. Bills deal primarily with funds appropriations. These include student travel to conferences, annual meetings, and competitions such as National Conference on the Legal Rights and Problems of Students, Southern Political Science Association, Louisiana Intercollegiate State Legislature, National Advertising Competition for Business Colleges, National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging, the NCAA Weightlifting Championship, and the National Intercollegiate Trap & Skeet Tournament. Other appropriations were for items such as salary increases, providing extra funds for the University Ombudsman, the Pakistani Relief Fund, refreshments for meetings, rent for the Associated Women Students office, a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest of a person who placed a bomb in Middleton Library, purchasing a television antenna for the Infirmary, new furniture for the lobbies of Hodges and Johnston halls, funds for a campaign to combat student apathy, new equipment for the Soccer Club, funding for a feasibility study for a campus daycare center, promoting lectures on the Louisiana constitutional convention of 1973, funding to keep the library open 24 hours during final exam week, and sponsorship of various campus social events. Resolutions relate to approvals for student health insurance policies, annual reports, and budgets, congratulating the work of the Morale Commission, appointments to the Traffic Appeals Board, changes in regulations governing women students and the dress code, ratification of the Student Bill of Rights, fund raising and charitable events, appointments to committees in Student Government and student representatives on University committees, resolutions outlining the need for sidewalks, paved parking areas, improved lighting, and other infrastructure improvements; requests for more fair and even enforcement of such campus rules as parking and traffic safety and alcohol possession in Tiger Stadium; establishment of a history committee and taking steps toward proper care of SG records; approval or disapproval of various bills proposed by the Louisiana legislature; and resolutions against mandatory participation in meal plans and fee and tuition increases. Notable items include a resolution against Louisiana Senate Bill 21 (1967) that would regulate outside speakers based on political ideology, the elimination of freshman head-shaving and compulsory ROTC (1967), introduction of a pass/fail grading system, eliminating and discouraging racial discrimination on campus, boycotting off-campus businesses that discriminate, and establishing a black cultural center; raising admissions standards; congratulating history professor T. Harry Williams on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Huey Long: A Biography (1970); resolutions condemning US involvement in Cambodia and demanding the pullout of US troops in Vietnam; a declaration of shared grief for the victims of the Kent State shootings in 1970; disagreement with the decision to allow Campus Security to carry firearms (1970); urging ratification of the 26th Amendment of the US Constitution lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 (1971); endorsement of Paul Murrill to succeed Cecil Taylor as chancellor; resolution allowing student with 30 semester hours or less to live off campus (1979); and opposition to a proposed merger of LSU and Southern as a means of desegregation (1980). Bills of particulars pertain to impeachment charges against SG presidents Paul Benoist in 1976, Ted Schirmer in 1976, Angelle Graves in 1986, SG financial vice-president Ned Wright in 1977, associate justice of the University Court Elizabeth Bennett in 1974, and SG vice-president Roddy Richard in 1986.

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Assembly resolutions pertain to many of the same issues as Resolutions, but come from the Student Government Assembly. They cover such issues as decriminalization of possessing small amounts of marijuana, for and against various fees and tuition increases, traffic and safety issues such as pedestrian crosswalks and warning signs at railroad tracks, student seating at athletic events, preservation of SG history, improvements to the campus mass transit system, updates and changes to the SG constitution, by-laws, and rules of order; resolutions calling for a reevaluation of the campus grading scale; expelling Assembly members for excessive absences; appointing committee and commission members; and changing the duties of SG officers and representatives. Notable items include condemnations of the Board of Supervisors and Louisiana Legislature for approving the expansion of Tiger Stadium (1974-1975), an apology to SG president Paul Benoist for false accusations leveled against him in an impeachment attempt (1975), charges of racial discrimination with the SG Homecoming Committee in 1976 and approval of SG president Ted Schirmer’s handling of the situation, requesting removal of Bob Broadhead as athletic director in 1986 for ethics violations, and opposition to budget cuts proposed by Gov. Edwin Edwards in 1986. Executive orders pertain to officer and committee appointments and their job descriptions, investigations into Campus Police operations, the establishment of boards and commissions on on-campus life and improvement, minority students problems, study a campus food co-op, women’s transit, resident housing and dormitory life, order to declare September 26 through October 1, 1977 “Mike the Tiger Week,” reorganization of the Executive Branch in 1980, and amendments to the rules of Free Speech Alley in 1986. Proclamations pertain to SG presidents calling the Assembly into special session. Vetoes are comprised of veto messages from the SG president explaining his or her opposition to bills and resolutions on such issues as expenditures, budget cuts, and changes to election procedures.

XIII. Election Records, 1966-1991. This series contains election packets, election results, ballots, rules for poll workers, campaign materials such as push cards and posters, candidate information, resumes’, and expense statements; records from the Election Board, Election Court, and University Court; and SG election codes. Election packets outline campaign rules and qualifications for candidates. Records from the Election Board include meeting minutes discussing the dates and rules for SG elections, whether or not to hold new elections because of rules infractions, disqualification letters, requests for voting machines to the state Commissioner of Elections and other logistical issues, election results, suits filed in University Court to overturn elections because of rules infractions, complaints to the board about candidates’ alleged lack of qualifications to hold or campaign for offices, conduct of poll workers, and violations of campaign rules. Election Court records include items similar to those in the Election Board records along with protests, complaints, and suits filed disputing election results and administrative errors.

XIV. Homecoming Records, 1972-1979. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of schedules of Homecoming events, parade routes, rules and applications for decoration competitions and diagrams of the decorations, and committee meeting minutes.

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XV. Surveys and Questionnaires, 1974-1984. This series contains surveys and questionnaires from the SGA and Residential Housing Association to gather student input on such issues as the establishment of coed dormitories, dormitory life in general, and cafeterias; career planning and job placement; bus service; parking procedures; teacher and course evaluations; the establishment of a leisure sports complex; off-campus housing; and off-campus students’ opinions on campus activities such as Free Speech Alley, the Reveille, Campus Police, and other issues.

XVI. Course Guide Records, 1980-1982. The course guide was a publication by SG utilizing student evaluations and comments about various course offerings. This series contains correspondence between SG officers and staff members addressing the format and content of the guide, copies of the guide, and questionnaires asking for students’ impressions of various courses.

XVII. SGA Publications, 1966-1988. This series contains various publications, brochures, newsletters, fliers, and posters produced or sponsored by the SGA. These include Bengal Bucks coupon books, brochures on campus traffic, women’s safety, getting involved in the SGA. Fliers and posters advertise such SG-sponsored services as the Job Bank, Women’s Transit Service, Apartment Referrals Service; getting involved in the SGA; remodeling and enlarging Mike the Tiger’s home; concerts sponsored by the SGA; and special speakers at Free Speech Alley such as Gov. Buddy Roemer. Newsletters include The Messenger (newsletter of the SGA Black Affairs Committee), The Sentinel, and SGA Free Press II (SGA newsletters). Other publications include Off Campus Survival Guide, Oneness (booklet on the SGA’s makeup and values), SGA Bankguide, The Good Book (“Things they didn’t tell you in the catalog.”), and a Louisiana Supreme Court brief of Student Government Association v. Board of Supervisors, a suit about parking tickets.

XVIII. Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1989.

Arranged chronologically, this series contains newspaper articles on such topics as SG elections and results and votes on student fees, editorials on the shootings at Southern University in 1973, articles on concerts held on campus, grants and other honors awarded to students, sale of alcohol near campus, racial discrimination by local businesses, Kerry Pourciau, the first black SG president, reorganizing SG, cuts to higher education funding, appointees to the LSU Board of Supervisors, and news from other campuses in the LSU System.

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INDEX TERMS Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Student Government. LSU Tigers (Football team) LSU Union. Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) Tulane University. World University Service. Archer, Mike, 1953- Tex Beneke Orchestra. Bertman, Skip, 1938- Brazile, Donna, 1959- Brown, Dale, 1935- Dardenne, John Leigh, 1954- Dean, Joe, 1930- Dietzel, Paul F., 1924- Edwards, Edwin W. French, Arden O. (Arden Odell), 1906-1993. Frey, Fred C. (Frederick Charles), 1891-1980. Hargrave, Carolyn Hooper. Hebert, Paul M. (Paul Macarius), 1907-1977. Hodges, Campbell B. (Campbell Blackshear), 1881-1944 Jameson, Margaret. Long, Gillis William, 1923-1985. Long, Rose. Long, Russell B. McClendon, Charles, 1923-2001. Mickal, Abe. Middleton, Troy H. (Troy Houston), 1889-1976. Murrill, Paul W. Power, Nora Neill. Reddoch, James Wilson, 1924-2011. Roemer, Buddy, 1943- Spaht, Carlos. Stovall, Jerry. Taylor, Cecil Grady, 1909-1999. Treen, David C., 1928-2009. Wharton, James H. Woodin, Martin D. (Martin Dwight), 1915-2006. College student government--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. College student newspapers and periodicals--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. College students--Alcohol use--Louisiana--Prevention. College students, Black--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. College students--Legal status, laws, etc.--Louisiana.

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College students--Louisiana--Baton Rouge--Social life and customs. College students--Political activity--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. College yearbooks--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. Cotton Bowl (Football game) Honor system (Higher education)--Louisiana. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Louisiana--Baton Rouge. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Education--United States. Young Americans for Freedom. French House (Baton Rouge, La.) John M. Parker Coliseum (Baton Rouge, La.) Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Baton Rouge, La.) Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) Agendas (administrative records) Audits. Ballots. Bills (legislative records) By-laws (administrative records) Charters. Clippings (information artifacts) Constitutions. Correspondence. Financial statements. Handbooks. Legislative acts. Minute books. Minutes. Newsletters. Progress reports. Reports. Resolutions (administrative records) Rules of procedure.

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CONTAINER LIST Location Box Folder Contents Date

I. Correspondence

Range A:73

1 1 Correspondence 1967, 1970-1973

2-36 Correspondence, January 1973-December 1988 1973-1988

37 Correspondence 1989-1992

38 Correspondence

II. Cabinet and Staff Meeting Records

1 39 Cabinet Agendas and Minutes 1966-1967

40 Cabinet Agendas and Minutes 1976-1979

41 Cabinet Agendas and Minutes 1981-1988

42 Staff Meeting Agendas and Minutes 1982-1988

III. Assembly Agendas and Minutes

Range A:74

2 43-44 Agendas and Minutes, April 1966-October 1967 1966-1967

45 Agendas and Minutes, April 1968-July 1969 1968-1969

46 Agendas and Minutes, April 1970-March 1971 1970-1971

47-53 Agendas and Minutes, June 1972-July 1978 1972-1978

54 Minutes, August 1978-April 1979 1978-1979

55-62 Agendas and Minutes, June 1979-April 1982 1979-1982

63 Agendas and Minutes, January 29-August 27, 1986

1986

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Range A:74

2 64 Agenda, February 25-November 25, 1987 1987

65 Agenda, January 18-November 30, 1988 1988

66 Agenda, February 15-March 1, 1989 1989

67 Agendas and Minutes, April 4-September 26, 1990

1990

68 Agendas and Minutes, January 29- April 22, 1992

1992

Range A:83

10 -- Bound volume: Council Minutes 1932-1938

-- Bound volume: Council Minutes 1938-1942

-- Bound volume: Council Minutes 1942-1949

-- Bound volume: Council Minutes 1949-1956

-- Bound volume: Council Minutes 1959-1966

-- Bound volume: Senate Minutes

1948-1956

Location Box Folder Contents Date

IV. Constitutions

Range A:74

2 69 Constitution, February 1927 1927

70 Constitution, 1957-1959 1957-1959

71 Constitution, March 30, 1966 1966

72 Constitution, April 3, 1968 1968

73 Constitution, April, 23, 1969 1969

74 Constitution, April 27, 1970 1970

75 Constitution, April 6, 1973 1973

76 Constitution, May 5, 1978 1978

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Range A:74

2 77 Constitution, June 1, 1978 1978

78 Constitutional Amendments October 1, 1978 1978

79 Constitution, February 14, 1979 1979

80 Constitution, October 1, 1979 1979

81 Constitution, March 20, 1980 1980

82 Constitution, May 31, 1981 1981

83 Constitution, May 31, 1983 1983

84 Constitution, February 22, 1984 1984

85 Constitution, November 14, 1984 1984

86 Constitution, May 31, 1985 1985

87 Constitution, May 31, 1986 1986

88 Constitution, October 17, 1986 1986

89 Constitution, April 1, 1987 1987

90 Constitution, October 7, 1987 1987

91 Constitution, April 11, 1988 1988

92 Constitution, September 26, 1991

1991

Location Box Folder Contents Date

V. By-Laws

Range A:74

2 93 By-Laws 1970-1971

94 By-Laws, September 1971 1971

95 By-Laws, February 28, 1973 1973

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Range A:74

2 96 By-Laws 1973-1974

97 By-Laws, February 1976 1976

98 By-Laws, May 5, 1978 1978

99-101 By-Laws, April 25, 1980-December 31, 1982 1980-1982

102-109 By-Laws, March 30, 1985-October 14, 1987 1985-1987

110 By-Laws 1987-1988

111 By-Laws

nd

Location Box Folder Contents Date

VI. Rules of Order

Range A:75

3 112 Rules of Order 1973

113 Rules of Order 1975

114-119 Rules of Order, 1977-1978 – 1982-1983 1977-1978 – 1982-1983

120-123 Rules of Order, March 20, 1985-August 30, 1988

1985-1988

124 Rules of Order

VII. Charters

3 125-127 Charter, July 21, 1980-March 31, 1981 1980-1981

128 Charter 1987

129 Charter

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VIII. Handbooks

Range A:75

3 130 Officers Handbook 1974-1975

131 Official Handbook 1966-1967

132 Official Handbook 1968-1969

133 Official Handbook

1969-1970

IX. Committee Records

3 134 Academic Affairs Committee 1972-1978

135 Academics Committee 1968, 1985-1986

136 Appropriations Committee 1985-1986

137 Bicentennial Committee 1974-1976

138 Black Affairs Committee 1980-1989

139 Black Culture Committee 1978-1979

140 Code of Student Conduct Committee 1980-1987

141 Coed Housing Committee 1977-1981

142 College Project Committee 1976-1977

143 Commission on Residential Housing and Dorm Life

1982-1987

144 Commission on Student Rights and Code of Student Conduct

1987

145 Committee for Seating at Athletic Events 1983-1984

146 Committee on Campus Life 1974-1982

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Range A:75

3 147 Committee on Constitutional Revision 1977

148 Committee on Press Freedoms 1974

149 Committee on Student Assembly Reappointment 1984-1985

150 Committee on Student Rights and Welfare 1984-1985

151 Committee on the Structure of a Single Residence Hall Association

1974

152 Committee Reports 1972-1992

153 Committee to Revise Bill of Student Rights 1975-1978

154 Committee to Select Day Care Workers 1977

155 Committee to Study Student Government Space Requirements

1966-1971

156 Community Affairs 1974-1980

157 Computer Committee 1987

158 Council of Presidents 1975-1977

159 Council on Environmental Issues 1973

160 Education Committee 1987

161 Educational Feasibility Study Committee 1976

162 Election Reform Committee 1983-1986

163 Entertainment Committee 1985

164 Governmental Relations Committee 1984-1986

165 Homecoming Committee 1969-1979

166 Housing Options Committee 1981

167 Internal Relations Committee 1979-1986

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Range A:75

3 168 LSU Non-Profit Book Rental 1975

169 Mass Transit Committee 1975-1990

170 Office of Research 1979

171 Organization Projects Committee 1976-1977

172 Residents Special Commission on Campus Lighting

1980-1986

173 Race Relations Committee 1988

174 Research Grant Committee 1972-1978

175 Rules Committee 1976-1977, 1985-1986, 1990

176 Student Athletic Advisory Council 1982-1990

177 Select Committee on the SGA Executive 1976

178 Special Commission on Academic and Disciplinary Hearings

1978-1981

179 Special Commission on Recreational Center 1984-1985

180 Special Rules Committee 1974

181 Star Trek/Time Capsule Committee 1976

182 Student Affairs Committee 1966-1976

183 Student Communications Media Board 1972-1979, 1987

184 Travel Committee

1973-1979

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X. Reports

Range A:76

4 185 Academic Credit Work in SGA 1979

186 Book Exchange Report 1986

187 Class Interval Schedule 1981

188 Executive Reports 1976-1987

189 Expenditures of Funds: A Ten Year Assessment 1980

190 “Funding of Student Government Association in Higher Education”

1980

191 Implementation of Housing Regulations 1973

192 Internal Audit Report 1987

193 Job Bank Progress Report 1980

194 Proposal for Establishment of LSU SGA Community Outreach Program

1990

195 “Report on Voting Record Years 1970-1980” 1980

196 Stop University Tuition Hike Project 1988

197 “Student Vote in State Boards of Higher Education”

1980

198 The Effect of Inflation on Higher Education 1980

199 The Making of a Student Body Constitution 1975

200 “Truth in Testing: Proposed Regulation of the Standardized Testing Industry”

1981

201 “Tuition Policy in Public Higher Education”

1980

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XI. Topical Files

Range A:76

4 202 Academic Affairs 1970-1981

203 Activities Carnival

204 Administrative Procedural Workshop 1974

205 Advertisements 1980-1986

206 Alcohol Awareness 1985

207 Apartment Guide 1989

208 Apartment Referral Forms 1985

209 Apartment Referral Service 1980-1986

210 Arthur D. Ensminger Memorial Award 1974

211 Bankguide 1987

212 Banquet 1971-1977

213 Bengal Bucks 1986-1988

214 Black Affairs 1980-1987

215 Board of Traffic Appeals 1973

216 Brainstorming Ideas on How to Make Student Life at LSU Better

217 Budget Cuts 1981

218 Campus Police 1974-1981

219 Campus Safety 1980

220 Chancellor’s Breakfast 1987

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Range A:76

4 221 Commissioner of Elections Resignation 1988

222 Constitution of the LSU Panhellenic Association 1973

223 Constitutional Convention 1988

224 Courtenay Smoak Memorial 1986

225 Day Care 1982

226 Faculty Awards 1988-1989

227 Football Seating Project 1986

228 Free Speech Alley

229 French House 1969-1975

230 “Hail Mary” 1986

231 Information Book Draft

232 Invitations 1988

233 Jazz Festival 1991-1992

234 Leadership Lab 1976

235 Management Recommendation 1974

236 Master Forms

237 Meeting Notes 1977-1980

238 Miscellaneous Remarks 1977, 1986

239 Mortar Board Tapping Service 1987

240 Muscular Dystrophy Marathon 1981-1984

241 National On-Campus Report 1984

242 Notary Public 1984-1987

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Range A:76

4 243 Oath of Office

244 Off-Campus Students Association Proposed Constitution – Draft

245 Ombudsman 1971-1987

246 Organization Structure 1974-1979

247 Parking 1979-1985

248 Petitions

249 Phone Survey – Cost of Education 1980

250 Press Releases 1987

251 Roommate Referral Service 1979-1980

252 Royal Order of the Tennis Shoe 1979-1980

253 Senior Gift Fund Project 1984

254 Stop University Tuition Hike Project 1988

255 Student Loan Program 1986

256 Student Organization Guide 1982

257 Student Media 1986

258 Student Poll on Leisure Sports Complex 1987

259 Textbook Selection Questionnaires 1973

260 The Phone/Crisis Intervention 1973-1974

261 Think Week 1980

262 Tiger Cage Expansion Project 1977

263 Tiger Gold 1985

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Range A:76

4 264 Tiger Trains 1965

265 Today in the SGA 1987

266 Transportation Department 1965-1967, 1980-1981

267 Tiger Bash 1987-1988

268 True Tiger Challenge 1987

269 United Nations Day 1974

270 Welcome Paks

271 Women’s Transit Authority 1974-1985

272 Women’s Transit and Highland Shuttle 1985-1987

273 Women’s Transit System Operations 1984-1987

Range A:11

11 1 Memoranda 1993-1994

2 Correspondence 1993-1994

3 Minutes - April 1993 1993

4 Minutes and Agendas 1993

5 Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Student Government Senate of Louisiana State University

1993-1994

6 Executive Appointments 1993-1994

7 Financial 1993-1994

8 Results of Speaker’s Information Survey 1993

9 Assembly Roster 1993-1994

10 Public Opinion Poll 1993-1994

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Range A:11

11 11 Final Executive Report - April 6, 1994 1994

12 Reform SGA Expenditure Report and Resignation

1993-1994

13 President’s Special Commission on SGA Reform: “Commission Report and Financial Summary”

1993

14 Megan Richey Memorial Fund 1993-1994

15 Greek Presidents 1993-1994

16 Student Organizations 1993-1994

17 Basketball Statistics 1993-1994

18 News Releases 1993-1994

19 Assembly News 1993

Range 43 12 1 AIESEC File 1992-1994

2 Approved Student Organizations 1987

3 Assembly Relations and Bills 1986-1992

4 Board of Regents Low Completer Degree Programs

1993

5 Board of Regents Minutes 1993-1994

6 Bus System Review 1994

7 By-Laws of the Student Government Association

8 Campus Correspondence 1990-1992

9 Children’s Miracle Network 1991

10 Code of Student Conduct, Revised 1990

11 Committee Preference Forms 1994-1995

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Range 43 12 12 Committee Advisory Consortium Minutes 1991

13 Contracts/Bids 1991

14 Contributions of LSU to the Citizens of Louisiana, Draft

1994

15 Correspondence

1993-1995

16 Cost Projections, Conceptual Phase, LSU Student Activities

1992

17 Disability Awareness Week Committee Meeting 1992

18 Enrollment Statistics 1990

19 Faculty Senate ad hoc Committee on Teaching Evaluation

20 Faculty Senate Report on General Education #1 1993-1994

21 Financial and Compliance Audit 1992

22 Freshman Leadership Group 1991

23 Human Relations Committee Information 1990

24 Human Relations Discussion Group 1990

25 Intentions of Candidacy for an Office in Student Government

26 Junior Division-SGA Constitution, By-Laws, Minutes

1989

27 Leadership Junction 1991

28 Leisure Sports 1991

29 Louise Garig House Council Financial Data 1992

30 LSU Tiger Hall of Distinction Annual Meeting 1991

31 LSUBR, The Handbook

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Range 43 12 32 Minutes-SGA 1992-1993

33 Minutes and Memos 1994-1995

34 Newsletter Proposal and Draft 1994-1995

35 Notifications of Absence from Student Senate 1994

36 Oaths of Affirmation 1993

37 Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Student Government

1993-1994

38 Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Student Government, Bills and Resolutions

1993-1994

39 Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Student Government, Executive Orders

1993-1994

40 Organizations Relief Fund Information 1993

41 Policy on Alcoholic Beverages 1991

42 Receipts 1993-1994

43 Results of Priority Setting Student Senate Agenda

1994

44 Safety Program 1991

45 Secure Louisiana’s Future Organizational Meeting Book

1993

46 Senate Bill No.1, Budget Proposal 1994-1995

47 Senate Bill No.69, Impeachment of University Court Chief Justice

1995

48 SGA Budget Bills and Resolutions 1989-1993

49 SGA Correspondence and Transactions 1993

50 SGA Elections, Spring and Fall 1991

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Range 43 12 51 Student Assembly Bills, Resolutions, Acts, and Cash Disbursements

1991-1992

52 Student Assembly Bills, Resolutions, and Acts 1992-1993

53 Student Fee Increase Proposal Information 1993

54 University Planning Committee 1991

55 Women’s Health/Abortion Correspondence 1991

Range 78 13 1 Academic Affairs 1998

2 Academic Calendars 1998-2000

3 Academics Committee Questionnaire Box 1993

4 Access Line Information 1995

5 Advanced Billing System 1996

6 African-American Cultural Center

7 Agriculture College Council 1993-1995

8 Alcohol 1998

9 Ambassadors 1999

10 Records Appointments 1998-1999

11 Assembly Center 1995-1996

12 Athletic Council 1974-1994

13 Athletic Council 1996-1997

14 August Commencement 1998

15 Basketball Tickets 1998-1999

16 Bengal Bound 1998

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Range 78 13 17 Bike Project 1998

18 Board of Directors 1998

19 Budget 1996-1998

20 Budget Committee 1998-1999

21 Bulletin Board 1998

22 Bus Tours 1998-1999

23 Buying Computers 1998

24 Career Day 1998

25 C.C.E.E.R. 1997

26 Chancellor’s Executive Staff 1998

27 Chancellor’s Incentive Awards 1993-1995

28 Chancellor’s Leadership Scholarship Program 1995-1996

29-30 Chancellor’s Search Committee 1998

31 Chancellor’s Search Committee- Agendas, etc… 1998

32 Chancellor’s Search Committee- Candidates Evaluation and Question Forms

1998

33 Chancellor’s Search Committee- General Information for Candidates

1998

34 Community Partner Coalition Box 1996-1997

35 Constituency Calls 1998

36 Constituency Reports 1998

37 C.O.S.B.P. 1999

38 C.O.S.G.A. 1999

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Range 78 13 39 Council Expense Reports 1997

40 Council of Academic Deans and Directors 1999

41 Council of Student Body Presidents of Louisiana 1999

42 Council of Student Body Presidents: Business Meeting

2003

43 Council of Student Body Presidents: Constitution

2001-2002

44 Council of Student Body Presidents 2001-2002

45 Council of Student Body Presidents: Contact List

2002

46-47 Council of Student Body Presidents: Directory 2001-2003

48 Council of Student Body Presidents: Emergency Meeting

2002

49 Council of Student Body Presidents: LSU Plan for Equity

2006

50 Council of Student Body Presidents: Meeting - June 2002

2002

51 Council of Student Body Presidents: Meeting Announcements

2002

52-54 Council of Student Body Presidents: Meeting 2002

55 Council of Student Body President’s: “P R & D” Plan

56 Council of University Senates 1998

57 Dean of Students 1998

58 Design 1999

59 Director of Student Media Search Committee 1997-1998

60 Disability Awareness Week 1999

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Range 78 13 61 Distance Learning 1998

62 Diversity 1998

63 Drew Barrymore 1998

64 Drinking and Death 1997-1998

65 Enrollment 1998-1999

66 Enrollment Projections 1998

67 Estes vs. SGB 1996-1997

68 Executive Appointments 1993-1994

69 Executive Branch: African American Cultural Center

2001-2002

70 Executive Branch: African American Cultural Center Expansion

2001-2002

71 Executive Branch: African American Cultural Center Expansion Committee

2001-2002

72 Executive Branch: Approval from Chancellor 2001-2002

73 Executive Branch: Campus Service Council 2001-2002

74 Executive Branch: Cell Phone Safety 2001-2002

75 Executive Branch: Chancellor Agreement 2001-2002

76 Executive Branch: Chancellor’s Committee 2001-2002

77 Executive Branch: Chancellor’s Policy 2001-2002

78 Executive Branch: Changing the Tech Fee Plan 2001-2002

79 Executive Branch: Official Legislation 2001-2002

80-84 Executive Branch: Coca Cola Money 2001-2002

85 Executive Branch: College Council Rollover 2001-2002

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Range 78 13 86 Executive Branch: Colligate Action Team 2001-2002

87 Executive Branch: Committees with SG Appointees

2001-2002

88 Executive Branch: Communication Agreements (w/ KLSU)

2001-2002

89 Executive Branch: Course and Curriculum Minutes For LSU

2001-2002

90-91 Executive Branch: Dead Week Revisions

2001-2002

92 Executive Branch: Fall Calendar 2001-2002

93-94 Executive Branch: Fee Research 2001-2002

95 Executive Branch: Grant Training Workshop 2001-2002

96 Executive Branch: Health Excuse Policy Revision

2001-2002

97 Executive Branch: Information on the Performing Arts Fee

2001-2002

98 Executive Branch: “L” Book 2001-2002

99 Executive Branch: Live Database Voting 2002

100 Executive Branch: LSU 1001 2000-2002

101 Executive Branch: Office of Computing Services

2002

102 Executive Branch: Organizational Mailout 2001

103 Executive Branch: PAWS Tools 2002

104 Executive Branch: PM-29 Memorandum 2002

105 Executive Branch: PR-Safety Cell Phone Poster

106 Executive Branch: PSIF Application and Bylaws 2001

107 Executive Branch: President’s Cabinet 2001

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Range 78 13 108 Executive Branch: Nighttime Bus Routes 2001

109 Executive Branch: Rec Center Fee Research 2002

110 Executive Branch: Recycling 2002

111 Executive Branch: Redirected Spring Sports Fee 2002

112 Executive Branch: Research for the Fee Committee Structure

2001

113 Executive Branch: SG Bus Trip 2001

114 Executive Branch: SG End-of-Year Financial Records

2002

115 Executive Branch: SG Late Night Bus Route 2001

116 Executive Branch: SG online PAWS Database 1998-2001

117 Executive Branch: SG PAWS Poll Questions 2001

118 Executive Branch: SG Rollover Fund 1996, 2001

119 Executive Branch: SG Staff Job Descriptions

2001-2002

120 Executive Branch: SG Teacher Profile Questions 2001

121 Executive Branch: Special Projects: Tiger Rag 2001

122 Executive Branch: Spring Executive Staff Retreat

2002

123 Executive Branch: Spring Sports Fee Rededication

2002

124 Executive Branch: Student Environmental Action Coalition

2001

125 Executive Branch: Student Fee Oversight Committee

2002

126 Executive Branch: Student Fee Taskforce 2001

127 Executive Branch: Student Government Budget 2001

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Range 78 13 128 Executive Branch: Summer Executive Staff Retreat

2001

129 Executive Branch: Sweatshops at LSU 2001

130 Executive Branch: Tech Check-out Center 2002

131 Executive Branch: Top 10 Goals 2001

132 Executive Branch: Transitional Materials

133 Executive Branch: University Relations Commitment to Fund “L” Book

2002

134 Executive Branch: Undergraduate Council 2001

135 Executive Branch: $1 Fee for Financial Aid Proposal

136 Executive Branch: Energy Surcharge 2001

137 Executive Branch: FEC Application

138 Executive Branch: LSUnited Pushcard

139 Executive Charter 1994-1997

140 Executive Orders 1998

141 Executive Staff 1998-1999

142 Executive Staff: Director of Finance/Safety 1991-1992

143 Executive Staff: Executive Director

144 Executive Staff: Executive Secretary

145 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Alabama Bus Trip To-Do List

2001-2002

146 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Assistant Director of Special Projects

147 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - College Council Liaison Annual Reports

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Range 78 13 148 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports –Department of Transport Safety Annual Reports

2001-2002

149 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports 2002

150 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports – Greek Lunch Parking Passes

2001

151 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports – International Affairs

152 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports – Minority Affairs Report

2002

153 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Projects of International Affairs

2002

154 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Public Relations

2002

155 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports – Staff List

2002

156 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Student Government Bus Trip

2001

157 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports- Student Improvement

2002

158 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports -Students on Target

2002

159 Executive Staff: End of the Year Reports - Technology Department

2002

160 Executive Staff: Director of Public Relations 1993

161 Facilities Design and Committee 1998

162 Fall Budget 1998

163 Freshman Orientation 1998

164 GAMMA (Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol)

1998

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Range 78 13 165 General College 1998

166 Government Presidents and Representatives 1999

167 Grad School 1998-1999

168 Grant- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1998

169 Greek Lunch Passes 1998

170 Harambe 1998

171 Health Center 1998

172 Hurricane George 1998

173 Int. Student Association Box 1998

174 Junior Division 1998

Range 78 14 1 Late Registration Appeals Committee 1994-1996

2 Legislature 1997

3 Libraries 1995

4 Louisiana Board of Regents 2001-2002

5 LSU System Report 1998

6 LSU Today 1988-1999

7 LSU Police: Bikes 1995-1996

8 LSU Police: Fraudulent Long Distance Code 1996

9 LSU-Shreveport Summer Partnership Report 1998

10 LSU v. Alabama Bus Trip 2001

11 McAnelly Condolences

1998

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Range 78 14 12 Men Against Violence 1998

13 Mentoring Committee 1998

14 Midterms 1998

15 Minority Issues 1998-1999

16 National Association of Students for Higher Education (NASHE)

1994-1996

17 Old SGA (Orders, Bylaws, Commission Reports)

1991-1994

18 Office Staff Agreement 1995

19 Organizations 1999

20 Organizations Relief Fund 1993

21 Orientation 1998-1999

22 Orientation Steering Committee 1998

23 OSOS 1993-1994

24 PAWS 1998

25 People Actively Willing to Serve 1998

26 Petitions 1996

27 Policy Memorandum 32 1998

28 President’s Inauguration 1996

29 Programming Support and Initiatives Fee (PSIF)-Assembly Center Advisory Committee

2002

30 PSIF-Application for Funding 2001

31 PSIF-Budget and Fee Account Information and Rollover Information

2002

32 PSIF-Campus Correspondence 2002

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Range 78 14 33 PSIF-Current Bylaws and Approved Application 2001-2002

34 PSIF-Dept. of Recreational Sports 2001

35 PSIF-First Year Bylaws 2001

36 PSIF-Founding Documents 2001

37-38 PSIF-LSU Student Government 2001-2002

39 PSIF-Official Documentation on Coca Cola Money

2002

40 PSIF-Official Memorandum No. 66: Soccer Club Funds

2002

41 PSIF-Official Memorandum No. 50: Spring Sports

2002

42 PSIF-Oversight Committee 2001-2002

43 PSIF-Policies and Procedures 1989-1997

44 PSIF-Recreational Sports Advisory Council 2002

45 Priority Registration 1997

46 Professional Development 1998

47 Program Council 1998

48 PS-23 1998

49 RA List 1998

50 Raised Admission Standards 1998

51 Rec Center 1997-1999

52 Red Cross Flag Football 1997

53 Reform SGA 1993

54 Reggie 1998-1999

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Range 78 14 55 Retreat 1994-1996

56 Reveille 1998

57 RHA 1998

58 San Juan Trip 1998

59 SEC Conference 1998

60 SEC Student Government Directory 1997-1998

61 Senate 1998-1999

62 Service Programs 1993

63 SG Elected Officials

64-69 SG President’s Memoranda 2001-2002

70 SG Press Releases 1993

71 SG Women Presidents 1998

72 Southern Regional Electronic Campus (SREC) 1998-1999

73 Spring Open House 1998

74 Staff Service Award 1992-1998

75 Student Advisory Council 1996-1999

76 Student Correspondence 1994-1995

77 Student Government President’s Correspondence 2002

78 Student Government Rep 1999

79 Student Letters 1997

80 Student Opinion Day 1995-1996

81 Student Publications References 1995

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Range 78 14 82 Student Publicity Information 1996

83 Student Services 1997-1998

84 Student Survey 1995-1996

85-91 Student Technology Fee Proposal 2002

92 T-Shirts 1998-1999

93-94 Teacher Evaluations 1994-1995

95 Teacher Evaluations 1998-1999

96 Textbook Exchange 1996

97 Tiger Bash 1998

98 Tiger Roar 1997

99 Tiger Weekly 1997

100 TOPS 1998

Range 78 15 1 Treasurer’s Manual 1994

2 Trial Court 1998

3 Union Computers 1997

4 Union Fee 1995-1997

5 Union Fee (Law School) 1995-1997

6 University Facilities Planning 1997-1998

7 Vision

1996

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Location Box Folder Contents Date

XII. Legislation

Range A:76

4 274-281 Acts 1974-1975 – 1981-1982

282 Acts 1983-1984

283-286 Acts 1985-1986 – 1988-1989

287 Acts 1991-1992

Range A:77

5 288 Bills 1966-1967

289 Bills 1968-1969

290 Bills 1970-1971

291-308 Bills 1972-1973 – 1989-1990

309-310 Bills 1991-1992 – 1992-1993

311 Resolutions 1964-1965

312-327 Resolutions 1966-1967 – 1981-1982

328-337 Resolutions 1983-1984 – 1992-1993

338 Bills of Particulars 1976-1987

Range A:79

6 339-346 Assembly Resolutions 1974-1975 – 1981-1982

347 Assembly Resolutions 1983-1984

348-354 Assembly Resolutions 1985-1986 – 1991-1992

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355 Executive Orders 1976-1979

356 Executive Orders 1980-1984

357 Executive Orders 1985-1992

358 Proclamations 1976, 1979

359 Vetoes

1975-1988

Location Box Folder Contents Date

XIII. Election Records

Range A:79

6 360 Election Packet 1973

361 Election Packet, Spring 1976 1976

362 Election Packet, Spring 1978 1978

363 Election Packet, Fall 1979 1979

364-365 Election Packet, Spring 1980-Fall 1980 1980

366 Election Packet, Fall 1982 1982

367 Election Packet, Spring 1983 1983

368-375 Election Packet, Spring 1984-Fall 1987 1984-1987

376 Election Packet, Spring 1988 1988

377 Elections 1973 1973

378 Spring/Fall Elections 1975 1975

379-380 Spring Election 1976-Fall Election 1976 1976

381 Spring/Fall Elections 1977 1977

382 Spring Election 1978 1978

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383-385 Elections 1979-1981 1979-1981

386 Elections, Fall 1982 1982

387-398 Spring Election 1983-Fall Election 1988 1983-1988

399 Fall Election Candidate Information 1988

400-404 Spring Election 1989-Spring Election 1991 1989-1991

405 Elections

406-407 Election Codes 1983-1991 1983-1991

Range A:80

7 408-410 Candidate Expense Statements, Spring 1974-Fall 1974

1974

411-412 Candidate Expense Statements, Spring 1975 1975

413-414 Candidate Expense Statements, Spring 1976-Fall 1976

1976

415-416 Candidate Expense Statements, Spring 1978-Fall 1978

1978

417 Candidate Expense Statements 1979

418 Candidate Expense Statements, Fall 1982 1982

419 Candidate Expense Statements, Fall 1986 1986

420 Candidate Expense Statements, Spring 1987 1987

421-424 Candidate Expense Statements, Fall 1988-Spring 1990

1988-1990

Range A:81

8 428-430 Candidate Resumes, Spring 1989-Spring 1991 1989-1991

431-434 Election Board 1969-1989

435 Election Court 1982-1989

436-439 University Court 1969-1978

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Range A:81

8 440-443 University Court

1979-1988

LSU MISC

1 1 “Fight for Repeat/Delete” button, and “Reform SGA” button

c. 1995

LSU MISC

3 1 Elections – Cards and Handbills

Location Box Folder Contents Date

XIV. Homecoming Records

Range A:80

7 425 Homecoming 1972-1973

426 Homecoming 1974

427 Homecoming 1978-1979

XV. Surveys and Questionnaires

Range A:81

8 444 Surveys 1974-1984

445-446 Off-Campus Housing, Fall 1978 1978

447-450 Off-Campus Students, Fall 1979-Spring 1980, undated

1979-1980

XVI. Course Guide Records

8 451 Consumer Course Guide Correspondence 1980-1981

452 Student Consumer Guide 1980

453 Student Course Guide 1981-82

454-488 Questionnaires: Accounting 1981

455 Questionnaires: Aerospace Studies 1981

456 Questionnaires: Agricultural Economics 1981

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Range A:81

8 457 Questionnaires: Agricultural Engineering 1981

458 Questionnaires: Agronomy 1981

459 Questionnaires: Animal Science 1981

460 Questionnaires: Architecture 1981

461 Questionnaires: Art 1981

462 Questionnaires: Band 1981

463 Questionnaires: Biochemistry 1981

464 Questionnaires: Botany 1981

465 Questionnaires: Business Communications and Office Systems

1981

466 Questionnaires: Chemical Engineering 1981

467 Questionnaires: Chemistry 1981

468 Questionnaires: Choral 1981

469 Questionnaires: Civil Engineering 1981

470 Questionnaires: Classical, Germanic, and Slavic Languages

1981

471 Questionnaires: Computer Science 1981

472 Questionnaires: Construction 1981

473 Questionnaires: Criminal Justice 1981

474 Questionnaires: Curriculum and Instruction 1981

475 Questionnaires: Dairy Science 1981

476 Questionnaires: Economics 1981

478 Questionnaires: Electrical Engineering 1981

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Range A:81

8 479 Questionnaires: English 1981

480 Questionnaires: Entomology 1981

481 Questionnaires: Environmental Science 1981

482 Questionnaires: Experimental Statistics 1981

483 Questionnaires: Extension Education 1981

484 Questionnaires: Finance 1981

485 Questionnaires: Food Science 1981

486 Questionnaires: Forestry / Wildlife Management 1981

487 Questionnaires: French and Italian 1981

488 Questionnaires: Geography and Anthropology 1981

Range A:82

9 489 Questionnaires: History

1981

490 Questionnaires: Home Economics 1981

491 Questionnaires: Honors 1981

492 Questionnaires: Horticulture 1981

493 Questionnaires: HPRD 1981

494 Questionnaires: Human Development 1981

495 Questionnaires: Industrial Engineering 1981

496 Questionnaires: Industrial / Technical Education 1981

497 Questionnaires: Journalism 1981

498 Questionnaires: Junior Division 1981

499 Questionnaires: Landscape Architecture 1981

500 Questionnaires: Management 1981

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9 501 Questionnaires: Marketing 1981

502 Questionnaires: Mathematics 1981

503 Questionnaires: Mechanical Engineering 1981

504 Questionnaires: Microbiology 1981

505 Questionnaires: Military Science 1981

506 Questionnaires: Petroleum Engineering 1981

507 Questionnaires: Philosophy 1981

508 Questionnaires: Physics and Astronomy 1981

509 Questionnaires: Plant Pathology 1981

510 Questionnaires: Political Science 1981

511 Questionnaires: Poultry Science 1981

512 Questionnaires: Psychology 1981

513 Questionnaires: Quantitative Methods 1981

514 Questionnaires: Sociology 1981

515 Questionnaires: Spanish and Portuguese 1981

516 Questionnaires: Speech 1981

517 Questionnaires: Veterinary Science 1981

518 Questionnaires: Vocational Agricultural Education

1981

519 Questionnaires: Zoology and Physiology

1981

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XVII. SGA Publications

Range A:82

9 520 Bengal Bucks 1986-1988

521 Brochures 1966-1981

522 Course and Teacher Evaluation 1980

523 Engineer’s Guide 1975

524 Fliers 1986-1987

525 LSU-SGA Calendar 1980-1984

526 The Messenger 1981, 1984

527 Off Campus Survival Guide 1975-1976, 1980, 1986-1987

528 Oneness 1969

529 The Sentinel 1965-1967

530 SGA Bankguide 1980-1987

531 SGA Free Press II 1980-1981

532 Student Consumer Guide 1980

533 The Good Book 1976

534 What Your Student Government Association Does for You

1985

535 LSU-SGA v. LSU Board of Supervisors

1972

Range 83 -- OS 1 Posters promoting various SGA sponsored events

1994, 1995

LSU MISC

3 2 Student and Community Services flier 1969

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XVIII. Newspaper Clippings

Range A:82

9 536 Newspaper Articles 1970-1974

537 Newspaper Articles 1976

538-540 Newspaper Articles 1977

541-544 Newspaper Articles 1978

545 Newspaper Articles 1979

546 Newspaper Articles 1985-1986

547-549 Newspaper Articles, March-November 1987 1987

Range A:83

10 550-551 Newspaper Articles, November-December 1987 1987

552-555 Newspaper Articles 1988

556 Newspaper Articles 1989